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A sweeping, global record of the go up of the manufacturing plant and its effects on contemporary society We reside in a factory-made world: modern life is made on three ages of advances in factory development, efficiency, and technology. But big factories also have fueled our fears about the future since their origins, when William Blake called them "dark Satanic mills". Many factories that run during the last two ages - such as Homestead, River Rouge, and Foxconn - were known for the labor exploitation and school warfare they engendered, not forgetting environmentally friendly devastation caused by factory development from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution up to today. In a significant work of scholarship or grant that is also wonderfully accessible, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman says the story of the manufacturing plant and examines how it includes mirrored both our dreams and our nightmares of industrialization and communal change. He whisks listeners from the textile mills in Great britain that power the Industrial Revolution and the manufacturing plant towns of New Great britain to the colossal material and car plant life of 20th-century America, Eastern European countries, and the Soviet Union and on to today's behemoths making tennis shoes, playthings, and cellphones in China and Vietnam. The giant manufacturing plant, Freeman shows, led a trend that transformed real human life and the surroundings. He traces arguments about factories and communal improvement through such critics and champions as Marx and Engels, Charles Dickens, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Ford, and Joseph Stalin. He chronicles protests against standard industry methods from unions and individuals' rights teams that resulted in shortened workdays, child labor laws, protection for structured labor, plus much more. In Behemoth, Freeman also explores how factories became objects of great marvel that both inspired and horrified designers and authors in their time. He examines representations of factories in the work of Charles Sheeler, Margaret Bourke-White, Charlie Chaplin, Diego Rivera, and Edward Burtynsky. Behemoth says the grand history of global industry from the Industrial Revolution for this. It really is a magisterial focus on factories and individuals whose labor made them run. And it provides a piercing perspective on how factories have designed our societies and the problems we face now.
